Wake Forest Athletics
Tom Named Preseason All-American by Phil Steele
6/22/2021 5:53:00 PM | Football
This marks the second consecutive season Wake Forest has had a player named to the Phil Steele All-America team.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Wake Forest football redshirt junior Zach Tom was named a Preseason All-America selection by Phil Steele.
Tom was listed as a fourth team selection by the publication on the offensive line. This marks the second consecutive year the Demon Deacons have had a Preseason All-America selection after Nick Sciba was a second-team selection while Carlos "Boogie" Basham Jr. and Sage Surratt were a third team choice in 2020.
A native of Prairieville, Louisiana, Tom will receive his degree in Business Enterprise Management. He started all nine games during the 2020 season at left tackle for the Demon Deacons and was named to the All-ACC Academic Team for the second year in a row.
He is the ACC's leading returner in pass block efficiency. Tom was responsible for just one sack and 12 total pressures in 370 opportunities last year.
Over the course of his career, Zach Tom has played in 1,902 snaps and has given up just one sack. Additionally, he has graded out at 92% overall and has only been called for three penalties.
Additionally earlier this year, Tom was named one of Wake Forest's four postgraduate scholarship recipients earlier this year, becoming the first football student-athlete to earn the honor since Ryan Javion in 2016.
